You have those who have been living and breathing Buckminster Fuller ever since he converted them to his cult and to be honest, I'm really not interested in that audience at all. I think that they're going to die out soon enough.
The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.
Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.
The witches do not know the origin of their cult.
On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their minds. It's more intense and demands more than other sports. And this is why the folks who are involved (as players, coaches, boosters, fans) are so much more devoted to it. It's really a cult, when you think about it.
The modern moralists extol. . . the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
A cult is a cult, and that's what a frat is. A place where they strip you of your personality and rebuild it in their image.
Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.
Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.
I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
When a cult grows up, it becomes a culture.
I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.
When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.
To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.
Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.